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Isotta Ingrid Rossellini

Isotta Ingrid Giuliana Frieda Rossellini[1] (born 18 June 1952)[2] is an Italian writer and academic.

Isotta Ingrid Rossellini
Rossellini in 1965
Born (1952-06-18) 18 June 1952 (age 74)
Rome, Italy
EducationColumbia University
Occupations
  • Writer
  • academic
Spouses
Alberto Acciarito
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(divorced)​
Richard Aborn
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(m. 1990)​
Children2
Parents
Relatives

Early life

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Rossellini with her mother, Ingrid Bergman, and siblings, Robertino and Isabella, on the set of The Visit in 1963

Rossellini was born in Rome, the daughter of director Roberto Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman, and the twin sister of actress Isabella Rossellini.[3][4] After her parents' divorce, she and her siblings lived in a hotel in Rome for two years while their custody arrangement was determined.[5] She worked as a makeup artist on the film A Matter of Time (1975), in which her mother starred.[6]

Career

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Rossellini earned a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and doctorate in Italian literature from Columbia University.[2][7] She has taught Italian literature at New York University,[8][9][10] Princeton University,[11][12] and Columbia University.[13] She has also given lectures on her father's films.[14]

In September 2015, she and her sisters hosted Ingrid Bergman: A Centennial Celebration at the Museum of Modern Art.[15] In 2018, she published a book titled Know Thyself: Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance.[16] That year, she also wrote opinion pieces for The New York Times and Literary Hub.[7][17]

Personal life

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Rossellini has two children: Tommaso, from her first marriage to Alberto Acciarito, and Francesca, from her second marriage to Richard Aborn.[2][14]

Bibliography

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  • Rossellini, Ingrid (1995). Nel trapassar del segno: idoli della mente ed echi della vita nei Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (in Italian). Firenze: L.S. Olschki. ISBN 978-8822243683.
  • Rossellini, Ingrid (2018). Know Thyself: Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance (1 ed.). New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385541893.

References

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  1. ↑ Steele, Joseph Henry (21 September 1952). "Bergman speaks her mind...". The American Weekly. p. 13. Retrieved 9 April 2026 – via Newspapers.com. But to explain the other two names of my daughter, Isotta Ingrid Giuliana Frieda.
  2. 1 2 3 Matossian, Juan Claudio (16 August 2025). "Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, la sorella gemella di Isabella Rossellini (e figlia di Ingrid Bergman) con un dottorato in letteratura che ha insegnato a Harvard". Vanity Fair Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  3. ↑ Schulman, Michael (22 December 2024). "For Isabella Rossellini, Acting Goes Beyond Words". The New Yorker. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  4. ↑ Consoli, Marco (16 October 2020). "Che fatica essere Rossellini". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  5. ↑ Halpern, Dan (1 May 2006). "Daddy's girl". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  6. ↑ Ohmer, Susan; Crafton, Donald (2016). "Interview with Stig Björkman on Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words". The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. 16 (2). University of Minnesota Press: 113–118. doi:10.5749/movingimage.16.2.0113. JSTOR 10.5749/movingimage.16.2.0113.
  7. 1 2 Rossellini, Ingrid (23 May 2018). "Ego and Impulse Have Always Been a Threat to Democracy". Literary Hub. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  8. ↑ Wapshott, Nicholas (30 April 2006). "Sisters feud as Isabella Rossellini is told: 'I can't stomach your film'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  9. ↑ Shelden, Michael (24 June 2006). "People always say: 'It's Ingrid Bergman'". Irish Independent. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  10. ↑ Kim, Ruth (16 April 2007). "Italian film festival to widen horizons". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  11. ↑ Rossellini, Ingrid; Rossellini, Isabella; Lindström, Pia (4 December 2003). "Ingrid Bergman's Three Daughters Remember Their Mother". Larry King Live (Interview). Interviewed by King, Larry. Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  12. ↑ Aspesi, Natalia (26 August 2020). "A Venezia la storia dei Rossellini, in competizione per l'amore di papà". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 8 April 2026.
  13. ↑ Espinoza, Isabelle (24 August 2015). "Ingrid Bergmans barn hyllar modern". Hallands Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  14. 1 2 Armelli, Paolo (25 September 2023). "Chi è Isotta Ingrid Rossellini, la gemella "sconosciuta" di Isabella Rossellini". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  15. ↑ Dollar, Steve (26 August 2015). "A Celebration of Ingrid Bergman, Plus a Teenage Werewolf". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  16. ↑ Romm, James (10 June 2018). "'Know Thyself' Review: The Evolution of a Culture". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  17. ↑ Rossellini, Ingrid (14 May 2018). "Opinion | The Ancient Myth of 'Good Fences'". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
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